Welcome to Thursday’s Newsletter

In todays scoop 🍨 

• 🗽 Uncle Sam Wants YOU!... to Build Super-Smart AI

• 💻 Teams Speaks French So You Don't Have To

• 🍎 OpenAI's Latest Homework: Teaching the Teachers About AI

• 🔧 3 Trending AI Tools

Uncle Sam Wants YOU!...

to Build Super-Smart AI

A congressional commission dropped a bombshell report Tuesday (pun absolutely intended) proposing a Manhattan Project-style initiative to win the AI race.

The target? Building Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) before China does.

Yes, they're really suggesting we use the atomic bomb playbook to build super intelligent computers. Wild times. 🤯 

Why it matters?

The last time America did a Manhattan Project, atoms were split and it changed warfare forever.

This time, they're trying to build AI smarter than humans. Who knows what impact this could have, but hopefully the UX is better than the atom bomb.

The details:

• 💰 The commission wants "broad multiyear contracting authority" (gov speak for "blank check")

• 📝 Data centers would get fast-track permits (because apparently paperwork is slowing everything down)

• ✅ The Defense Department would slap their "highest priority" stamp on AI projects

Committee member Jacob Helberg, dramatically puts it: "Countries that are first to exploit periods of rapid technological change can often cause shifts in the global balance of power."-Translation: Second place in an AI arms race isn't where you want to be.

If history's taught us anything, it's that whoever controls the tech controls the future.

China's been going hard on everything from quantum tech to biotech, and it's got Uncle Sam sweating. 🌡️

What's next?

Congress will debate this proposal while probably binge-watching "Black Mirror" for research purposes.

Teams Speaks French So You Don't Have To

Ever wished you could sound sophisticated in French without spending years mastering "omelette du fromage"? 🧀 Microsoft's got your back.

The tech giant just announced "Interpreter" for Teams – an AI tool that not only translates your words in real-time but does it in your voice.

Yes, your digital clone can now speak nine languages while you stick to your comfortable monolingual existence.

Coming in early 2025, this feature will let you chat in English while your colleagues hear you speaking fluent Japanese, Korean, Spanish, or five other languages. It's like having a babel fish in your ear, minus the slimy fish part 🐟

But before you start planning your international speaking debut, there's a catch: you'll need a Microsoft 365 Copilot license to access this linguistic wizardry. (No one said sounding worldly would be free.)

Microsoft swears they won't store your voice's biometric data or turn your digital twin into an international pop sensation without your consent 🎤

Though given how AI voice cloning has already been used for some creative scam calls, maybe keep an ear out for your clone trying to borrow money in Mandarin.

In demo videos, the feature smoothly converts Spanish to English and English to Korean, maintaining the speaker's voice characteristics. It's like watching a dubbed movie, except you're the star, and you actually sound like yourself.

If your dream has been to deliver presentations in French while , your time has finally come. Just remember don't expect AI to save you when someone asks "parlez-vous français?" in the hallway after the call.

🍎 OpenAI's Latest Homework: Teaching the Teachers About AI

OpenAI is now playing teacher to the teachers. They just dropped a free course teaching educators how to use ChatGPT in the classroom.

Remember when schools were banning ChatGPT faster than TikTok at a family dinner? Well, times have changed.

OpenAI, teaming up with Common Sense Media, launched a crash course to help K-12 teachers transform from AI skeptics to AI savants 🌟

The Classroom Revolution

The course, already tested in "dozens" of schools, is spreading faster than notes during a pop quiz.

Schools in Arizona, California, and the Challenger Schools charter system are already on board. According to OpenAI's internal stats, 98% of teachers found new ideas they could use – though we're still waiting to confirm if ChatGPT helped with that survey. 😉

Not Everyone's Getting an A+

But hold your mechanical pencils – not all educators are writing love letters to this initiative. Lance Warwick, a sports lecturer at UIUC, found some head-scratching contradictions in the course. One minute it's suggesting teachers input past grades, the next it's warning about student data privacy. Talk about mixed signals! 🔄

With the AI in education market potentially hitting a whopping $88.2 billion in the next decade, OpenAI isn't just dipping its toes in – it's diving into the deep end of the education pool. They've even hired Leah Belsky, former Coursera executive, as their education GM with a crystal-clear mission: "put AI into the hands of every student and every teacher."

But with only 18% of K-12 educators currently using AI in their classrooms, OpenAI might need more than a shiny apple to win over the teacher's lounge.

🔧3 Trending AI Tools

• 🗣️HeyGen - create and translate videos in 175 languages without the need for a camera or crew.

• 🌅 Before Sunset - organized tasks created by writing down what’s on your mind

• 🔍️ Sharbo - lets you analyze, compare, and track competitor features relative to your product

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Until tomorrow—stay curious! 👋